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Short doco: Iran: The making of a war A CIA-MI6 coup in 1953 ousted the democratically elected prime minister of Iran, Mohammad Mosaddegh & installed a US-compliant monarchy under Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. Societal discontent with two decades of Pahlavi's repressive policies & continued western interference culminated in the 1979 revolution led by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. https://www.aljazeera.com/video/featured-documentaries/2026/8/1/iran-the-making-of-a-war?ref=upstract.com#USPol #UKPol #EUPol #IranianHistory #CIA #MI6 #USCoup .

https://foreignpolicy.com/2026/07/10/cia-history-communist-albania-cold-war-kim-philby-review/ How NOT to launch a clandestine mission! Kim Philby didn't need to betray ANY of it, it was so badly organised! "Far from the buttoned-up, bureaucratized #spying of the later #ColdWar period, the early post-war #MI6 & #CIA were an almost shambolic bunch. With little oversight, especially on the #US side, these #agencies could concoct whatever schemes & plans they fancied... they were less James Bond, more Monty Python..."